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JT Trinidad is a filmmaker and film critic who studies film at the University of the Philippines Diliman. He has directed shorts that went to international and local film festivals. Growing up in the capital, his portrayal of industrial relationships and modern emotions in his films is what defined him as a visual storyteller who makes the personal political.

In 2020, he was able to get into Ricky Lee’s Screenwriting workshop under its 25th Batch. He is also part of the first Pelikultura Film Criticism Workshop under the mentorship of Richard Bolisay. As a representative of Sine Liwanag, he covered the 50th International Film Festival Rotterdam. His full-length screenplay Hindi na Makakamtan was accepted in Labo-Labo, a script development film lab in the Philippines. He was recently selected as one of the inaugural members of the Society of Filipino Film Reviewers, a local award-giving body. He is also a new member of Cine Critico Filipino and the assistant editor of a Philippine-based online film publication SINEGANG.ph. His first documentary short as if nothing happened won Second Best Film, Best Screenplay, and Best Editing award at the Gawad Sining Short Film Festival 2020. It was also screened in Cinema Rehiyon 2021 and will be shown in Les Mains Gauches – France. It won Best Cinematography at the Films Under Severe Experiment – Croatia. It was also included in CNN Life Philippines’ list of Best Filipino Films of 2020. His in-development short film if you leave, please let me know will be developed in the first Cine Sundays Script Lab. He was also chosen as one of the cohort for the inaugural Film Futura by No Evil Eye Cinema.